...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.